Desert

minecraft:desert

Explore Desert for its sand surface / below surface. Follow the material links to plan a building palette, or check the mob conditions before making a resource trip.

Surfacesand
Belowsand
Basestone
Surface material guide

Find the exact biome

/locate biome minecraft:desert

Requires cheats. Searches the current dimension; legacy definitions may not generate in your world.

Materials to plan around

Plan around these terrain materials. Check each block's acquisition details before expecting a particular mining drop.

Mobs to investigate here

These definitions satisfy a complete biome filter. Follow a mob to check its drops, required light, blocks, height and runtime conditions. A matching biome alone does not guarantee a spawn.

  • Bat

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Camel

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Camel Husk

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Creeper

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Enderman

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Husk

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Parched

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Phantom

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Rabbit

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Skeleton

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Slime

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Spider

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Witch

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Zombie

    Check drops and spawn requirements

Compare another destination

Desert Hills

Same desert family; sand is its surface / below surface material.

Go a little deeper

Version history

Minecraft Bedrock v1.26.0.2: Breeding Rewrite, Biome Types

Major jump 1.21 to 1.26. Breeding rewrite, offspring component, baby_undead family, biome village types, spear audio, and 50+ entity updates.

Technical biome reference

Tags

desertmonsteroverworldspawns_gold_rabbitsspawns_warm_variant_farm_animalsspawns_warm_variant_frogs

Climate

Temp
2
Downfall
0
Snow0 – 0.125

Surface Materials

The surface is composed of sand, with sand below, built on a foundation of stone. Water bodies use water. The sea floor uses gravel at a configured depth of 7.

Top
sand
Mid
sand
Foundation
stone
Sea
water
Sea floor
gravel
Floor depth
7

Noise Type

lowlands

Generation

Desert uses "lowlands" terrain noise. It can transform into desert hills at higher elevations. It may mutate into desert mutated. It generates in warm climate zones.

Hills Transformations

desert_hills

Mutate Transformation

desert_mutated

Generate for Climates

warm